Donald Whitehouse Curtis *42

DONALD WHITEHOUSE CURTIS *42, senior economist with the Treasury in Washington, D.C., died of leukemia in Sibley Memorial Hospital Oct. 25, 1989. He was 71 years old. A native of Lewiston, Me., he earned his bachelor's degree at Bates College. He entered a doctoral program in economics at Princeton and completed his M.A. before being sent to Germany in 1945 as an economist for the U.S. military government. He joined the Treasury in 1946 and was employed there for the rest of his life. His expertise lay in international exchange and balance of payments. In the late 1940s, the Treasury sent Curtis to work in Bern, Switzerland and in Paris, France, in the implementation of the Marshall Plan. He then returned to Washington and was promoted to chief of the Treasury's European division. He served for 25 years as head of the balance of payments program and was an active participant in the Paris meetings of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. In 1987 he became a senior consultant economist.

Profound condolences are mended to his widow, Mary, his three children, six grandchildren, and brother.

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